I work in education, so I looked at this with interest (PowerPoint is a teacher's staple, although I personally prefer Reveal.js).
I think a closer model to GitHub and the Windows app would be more useful to me. The Github Windows app is able to pick up differences in Word documents without any trouble already (although probably just text changes).
When working on a project, we normally have multiple files in a directory. A PowerPoint or two, a couple of Word docs and maybe an Excel file. A standalone app, rather than a PowerPoint plugin, would be able to look for all changes in the directory such as the addition of image files.
More importantly I would like to see pull requests. I like to share my resources with other educators, that aren't part of my 'team'. It would be nice if they could make improvements to my resources and then submit a pull request, so I could review what they've done and then accept it.
Just my thoughts. I've long thought we need a GitHub for teachers, but I don't have the skills to implement this yet.
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I work in education, so I looked at this with interest (PowerPoint is a teacher's staple, although I personally prefer Reveal.js).
I think a closer model to GitHub and the Windows app would be more useful to me. The Github Windows app is able to pick up differences in Word documents without any trouble already (although probably just text changes).
When working on a project, we normally have multiple files in a directory. A PowerPoint or two, a couple of Word docs and maybe an Excel file. A standalone app, rather than a PowerPoint plugin, would be able to look for all changes in the directory such as the addition of image files.
More importantly I would like to see pull requests. I like to share my resources with other educators, that aren't part of my 'team'. It would be nice if they could make improvements to my resources and then submit a pull request, so I could review what they've done and then accept it.
Just my thoughts. I've long thought we need a GitHub for teachers, but I don't have the skills to implement this yet.
You should check out this http://www.teachhub.meliordevelopment.com/. We built it in a weekend exploring exactly that problem in schools.
Marc - I'm building something I think you'd find interesting and would love to chat with you. Shoot me an email? lorendburton [at] gmail